Advising

Bring Your Advising Questions, and We’ll Provide the Answers

Whatever you want to know about University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and its Journalism program, we can help.

There are two groups of people involved in your advising.

1. Journalism faculty & staff, who can speak to any question related to the Journalism program,

And, 2. General-education advisers, who can speak to any question about UH outside of the Journalism program.

If you have any questions, or confusion, or just want to check-in and register your progress toward the degree, we highly recommend that you participate in an advising session with us every semester, with both groups, if you like. We are here to help, but we can’t help you if you don’t connect with us. UH has multiple advising centers, advisers trained for different skills, and all of the university and major requirements can become quite confusing for students, especially when they get different advice from different people. Step one, then, is to determine which of those two groups you need advice from, someone in the Journalism program, or not.

Here are those resources for you:

For all Journalism-related questions, start with Angie Hamilton-Lowe

Angie is the Educational Specialist for the Journalism program, and she provides one-on-one advising for majors, as well as for students who are considering Journalism as a major. You can reach her at: [email protected].

You can also ask the Journalism faculty members

Who are:

Dr. Brett Oppegaard, [email protected] ( On leave ’24-’25))
and Dr. Julien Gorbach, [email protected]

For all Gen-Ed or non-Journalism-related questions, ask the ACCESS advisers

As a student in the College of Social Sciences, you have access to the ACCESS office (Dean Hall 3, in the basement), which specializes in CSS programs. Advisers in this office will help you to make sure that you are on track to graduate and meet all of your requirements.

Any of the ACCESS advisers can answer any questions about the Journalism major and even recommend some Focus designation classes to you.

Those are:

Jason Higa, [email protected]
Jennifer Oshiro, [email protected]
Kalei Keolanui, [email protected]
or Dawn Nishida, [email protected]

If you are planning to graduate within the next academic year? You need to complete the Major Requirement Form and meet with the ACCESS staff to ensure and verify you have all of the credits you need.